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UPFRONT CUYAHOGA COUNTY TO SPEND $23 MILLION IN OPIOID SETTLEMENT MONEY ON TREATMENT AND PREVENTION SERVICES Photo courtesy of Cuyahoga County

CUYAHOGA COUNTY EXECUTIVE Armond Budish last week announced how the county will spend $23 million it’s received from four settlements in its lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors. The trial against the rest is slated to begin on Oct. 21 with Summit County as co-plaintiff.

Phase One of the Cuyahoga County Opioid Crisis Mitigation Plan, the county said yesterday, will focus on “evidence-based, impactful, sustainable programs with a focus on prevention, treatment and recovery.”

The grants so far: $5.4 million: For the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board to create 32 new residential treatment beds and to fund the expansion of the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Program. $2 million: For St. Vincent Charity’s Rosary Hall for peer recovery efforts and the expansion of their Partial Hospitalization Program and Intensive Outpatient Program. $1.7 million: For MetroHealth’s treatment of inmates at the county jail, including care for addiction and mental health issues.

$931,000: For MetroHealth to create a specific opioid treatment program unit at the jail. $3 million: For the expansion of the Thrive ED Program across local emergency rooms. “Thrive ED is an innovative program linking individuals in an emergency room that survive an overdose for immediate withdrawal management, treatment and other recovery support services.” $3.5 million: For the Sobriety, Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) Program at the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services to increase staffing.

START works with mothers and newborns who have chemical dependency issues. $2.5 million: For a newly created diversion program for low-level offenders suffering from substance issues to receive support instead of simply sitting in the county jail as they await court dates.

The county has estimated in court documents that it’s already incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in costs dealing with the aftermath of the opioid epidemic — from the coroner’s office to foster kids, from treatment to the court system, etc.

How long this money lasts and

what more might be coming once the trial is complete are two open questions.

“Due to a handful of corporations that put their desire for profits over the health and well-being of the community, our community is suffering the consequences of this plague,” Budish said in a statement.

“We are working to recover some

resources necessary to pay the costs which we’ve already incurred and are likely to incur for years to come.”

“The settlement funds that we have received allow us to get started in the important work of providing services to help avoid the next wave of casualties,” added county council president Dan Brady.

— Vince Grzegorek

A Brief Note About the Cover Wrap Advertisement on This Week’s Issue Dear reader, Chances are if you’re reading this note that you flipped past a cover wrap advertisement on the issue. Cover wraps are one advertising option that Scene’s sales department offers. It is the editorial department’s least favorite, for a couple of reasons, not least of which is that our cover wraps almost always involve not just politics but politics and political issues Scene has reported on and covered. These have included cover wrap ads for candidates including Ken Lanci in 2013, Jack Schron in 2014, Zack Reed in 2016, and Peter Corrigan in 2018.

The editorial staff has objected each and every time.

While labeled as ads, they are, by design, meant to look like editorial content, to look like Scene is endorsing an issue or candidate.

That’s bad enough. It’s even worse, and

more pernicious, when the cover wrap ad is as cravenly dishonest as this week’s fearmongering garbage from the Ohioans for Energy Security.

The pro-HB6 group supporting Ohio’s bailout of FirstEnergy’s nuclear power plants (and a coal plant to boot) and the erosion of the state’s renewable energy regulations has mounted perhaps the most shady and misleading ad campaign in recent memory, as Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts and other groups mount a signature drive for a ballot initiative to repeal the bill.

Sensational TV and print ads claimed, incorrectly and with no basis in fact, that the Chinese government is trying to take over and invade Ohio’s energy grid and that signing the petition would be handing your information over directly to the Chinese.

They claimed this, they said, because natural

gas groups have borrowed money from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to build three of Ohio’s four natural gas plants.

But those loans involved more than just the ICBC — 10 other banks from across the globe are tied up in the financing of those plants.

What’s more, FirstEnergy, which owns the nuclear plants bailed out by HB6, has received $161 million from ICBC and other international banks, according to the company’s 2018 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

There is plenty of fertile ground on which to debate HB6. The petition drive, if it gathers the necessary signatures, would merely put the issue before Ohio’s voters.

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UPFRONT Law Striking ‘Pink Tax’ on Feminine Hygiene Products Could Soon Pass Ohio Legislature The Ohio House of Representatives has voted to pass Senate Bill 26, legislation that includes a provision removing state sales taxes on tampons and other feminine hygiene products.

State representatives tucked the provision striking the so-called “pink tax� into SB26.

That bill also allows teachers to claim a $250 state income tax deduction for school supplies they purchase and strikes a provision in the last state budget making lawyers and lobbyists ineligible for business tax exemptions. Under SB26, those professions will still be eligible for the same exemptions on their ďŹ rst $250,000 of income that other businesses are offered.

House Speaker Larry Householder says there is no way for the state to enforce the prohibitions on the tax deductions for those groups because the Ohio Department of Taxation doesn’t ask for occupation on state tax forms. The version of SB26 the House passed would change that, however, requiring that information on the forms — a move that could shed new light on the effectiveness of the business tax deduction, Householder said.

State Rep. Brigid Kelly of Cincinnati, a Democrat, originally sponsored legislation removing the pink tax with Republican State. Rep. Niraj Antani of Dayton. “Through the sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene period products

included in this bill, we are making medically necessary products more accessible to women and girls in our state, ensuring they are better able to lead a healthful life, to regularly attend school, work or personal events, and to fully participate in their communities,� Kelly said in a statement.

Eliminating the tax is expected to save consumers $4 million a year.

State representatives passed SB26 unanimously. The bill now heads back to the Senate, which must approve the changes, and then to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk for his signature. — Nick Swartsell

Teens Arrested in Connection with Death of Photographer Struck by Log at Hocking Hills State Park Two teenage boys have now been charged in connection with the death of Chillicothe photographer Victoria Schafer.

Over Labor Day weekend, the 44-year-old was taking senior photo portraits on one of the most popular trails in Hocking Hills State Park when she was struck from above by a large log.

Following the initial report of the mother of four’s death, ofďŹ cials announced the tree was “dislodgedâ€? from above before striking Schafer near Old Man’s Cave and that it was not a “natural occurrence.â€?

Last month, Central Ohio Crime Stoppers offered a $10,000 reward to anyone with information regarding Schafer’s death.

After receiving pertinent information regarding the case, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources began investigating a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, who have now been charged with reckless homicide, the Chillicothe Gazette reported.

A press release from the Hocking County Prosecutor’s OfďŹ ce said the boys allegedly admitted that they helped push the log over a cliff that struck Schafer.

Schafer’s death is the third reported near Hocking Hills this summer. Park ofďŹ cials have also rescued at least four hikers throughout the season. — Laura MORRISON

Topgolf Aiming for December Opening in Independence If you’ve driven past the I-480/I-77 interchange, you’ve seen the massive Topgolf location in Independence taking shape over the past year ‌ slowly at times, it seemed.

We’re rounding the corner toward the ďŹ nish, though.

Topgolf this week announced it’ll hire about 500 employees for the location, and said it should be open for business come mid-December, before the holiday season. “Adding Topgolf to the Independence business community is a signiďŹ cant win for us, as it broadens the Rockside area’s amenity mix,â€? Independence mayor Anthony L. Togliatti said in a news release. “Its presence here will serve our families and corporate citizens alike with entertainment options that no one else in the region has.â€? “We are so excited to continue our Ohio expansion with new venues in Cleveland and Columbus,â€? said Topgolf chief development ofďŹ cer Chris Callaway. “We are looking forward to bringing Topgolf’s allseasons entertainment for the local communities to enjoy.â€?

Topgolf, for the uninitiated, offers a year-round, climatecontrolled facility where golfers hit microchipped balls at various targets. Players accumulate points based on distance and accuracy. Yes, it is mighty good fun. — Grzegorek

Cleveland to Get Its First Downtown Children’s Playground The ďŹ rst-ever children’s playground in downtown Cleveland will be arriving later this year.

On Monday, Oct. 28, Downtown Cleveland Alliance will break ground on the kids’ park at the ever-evolving North Coast Harbor.

The DCA conďŹ rmed to Scene that, weather depending, the new child-friendly spot should be open by mid-November. Details about the park’s size and what equipment will

DIGIT WIDGET 10,000 Pounds of bagel dough Bialy’s went through last week before Yom Kippur.

$10,474 Amount raised for a disabled Cleveland Heights woman after

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7TH Cleveland’s ranking on a list of the country’s worst drivers, according to a report by QuoteWizard, which compiled stats on accidents, DUIs and trafďŹ c tickets.

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The new park will be right behind the Great Lakes Science Center.

The free groundbreaking ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. and families are invited to attend.

— Morrison

The Status of Ohio Women: A New Breakdown by County Exactly how women are faring in Ohio varies by county, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis. In its

new Status of Women fact-book, the Center for Community Solutions examined data from Ohio’s 88 counties in key areas of women’s lives, including health, economic status and educational attainment.

Melissa Federman, Treuhaft chair of health planning at the center, said she sees some distinct differences between counties in certain areas.

“Looking at education attainment, women are doing well compared to men, but there are some counties that still have a hard time graduating women from high school,” Federman said. “Or looking at the gender wage ratio, there’s a range there from 50

to 60 cents on the dollar to 80 to 90 cents on the dollar.”

The highest median earned income among Ohio women is roughly $56,000 in Delaware County, followed by Warren County at $50,487, and Geauga County at $47,763. Federman noted major disparities by county in the diagnosis of late-stage cervical cancer, women in STEM careers, and teen birth rates.

Federman said the data is not intended to be a scorecard or a ranking, but rather a tool to raise awareness of the status of Ohio women in each individual county.

“We’re really hoping that counties will look at this and think about their policies, their resources, their leadership, and really consider what they can work on that will have the greatest impact for women and their families,” she said.

Among other key findings: Fewer than one-third of elected officials in Ohio are women, nearly 20 counties don’t have community health centers, and women of child-bearing age are the demographic most likely to live in poverty. — Mary Kuhlman

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Walter Lippmann in Wonderland: Project Censored’s Top 10 Stories

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VERY YEAR, PROJECT Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed, and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Or “curiouser and curiouser” as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume of their work, Censored 2020: Through the Looking Glass, which includes their full list of the top 25 censored stories and much, much more about the never-ending struggle to bring vitally important hidden truths to light.

In the forward, “Down the Rabbit Hole of ‘Media Literacy’ by Decree,” Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy Awardwinning investigative journalist, highlights the absurdity of “so many well-organized, well-funded efforts to root out so-called ‘fake news,’” which — as we’ll see below — have significantly impacted the kinds of journalists and outlets who have historically produced the stories that make Project Censored’s list in the first place.

“The self-appointed curators, often wielding proprietary algorithms, summarily dispense with facts and ideas that they determine to be false — or maybe just dangerous to their agendas,” Attkisson notes. “Thanks to them, we will hardly have to do any of our own thinking. They’ll take care of it for us.”

Does that seem hyperbolic? Well, read on, dear reader, read on. In Project Censored’s #2 censored story this year, you’ll discover Facebook partnering with a NATOsponsored think tank to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference” — a think tank whose funders include the U.S. military, the United Arab Emirates, weapons | clevescene.com | October 16 - 22, 2019

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FEATURE contractors and oil companies.

And whose board includes Henry Kissinger, the world’s most famous war criminal. Who better to tell you who to believe? Or better yet, decide who you’ll never even hear from?

“Through the Looking Glass.”

Yes, indeed.

In the beginning, Project Censored’s founder, Carl Jensen, was partly motivated by the way that the early reporting on the Watergate scandal never crossed over from being a crime story to a political story until after the 1972 election coverage.

It wasn’t censorship in the classic sense practiced by church and state since time immemorial, but it was an example of something even more insidious, because no clear-cut act of censorship or all-powerful censor was needed to produce the same result of a public left in the dark. Jensen defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully

knowing what is happening in its society.” And the most obvious way to start fighting it was to highlight the suppressed information in the form of the stories that didn’t get widely told. Thus Project Censored and its annual list of censored stories was born.

Jensen’s conception of censorship may be light-years away from how most media figures think of things.

But while introducing this year’s list of stories, the volume’s co-editor Andy Lee Roth quotes media legend Walter Lippmann echoing the same sensitivity in his 1920 book, Liberty and the News: “Whether one aspect of the news or another appears in the center or at the periphery makes all the difference in the world.”

But Project Censored was never just about the individual stories, it was about the patterns of marginalization and suppression that could be seen through the lens of connecting them. In his introduction, Roth says that “identifying these unifying themes is one significant way to gauge the systemic blind spots, third rails, and ‘no go’ zones in corporate news coverage.” He identifies several such patterns, which are stronger and more vivid in full list of Project Censored’s Top 25 stories, but still

illuminating in terms of the Top 10. Stories 1 and 2 deal with press freedoms; stories 2, 4 and 9 deal with corporate misconduct; stories 2 and 10 deal with technology; stories 3 and 4 deal with the environment; stories 5, 6 and 8 deal with gender inequalities; and stories 6, 7 and 8 deal criminal justice, prisons and detention.

As you can see, these patterns overlap. Stories 2, 4, 6 and 8 are all part of at least two. And there may well be other patterns you discover for yourself. These patterns don’t just connect issues and problems that those in power would rather neglect. They also connect people, communities and potential solutions, which those in power would rather see stay disconnected. So don’t just read the following as a list of stories “out there.” Read it as an opportunity to connect.

1. Justice Department’s Secret FISA Rules for Targeting Journalists The federal government can secretly monitor American journalists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to two

2015 memos from then-Attorney General Eric Holder. The memos were obtained by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which was reported on by The Intercept, whose parent company provides funding for both organizations, but was virtually ignored by the corporate media.

The secret rules “apply to media entities or journalists who are thought to be agents of a foreign government, or, in some cases, are of interest under the broader standard that they possess foreign intelligence information,” The Intercept reported.

Project Censored cited three “concerning” questions the memos raise.

First, how many times have FISA court orders been used to target journalists, and are any currently under investigation?

Second, why did the Justice Department keep these rules secret when it updated its “media guidelines” in 2015?

And third, is the Justice Department using FISA court orders — along with the FBI’s similar rules for targeting journalists with National Security Letters (NSLs) —

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The corporate media virtually ignored these revelations when they occurred. The subsequent media interest in FISA warrants targeting Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, “has done nothing at all to raise awareness of the threats posed by FISA warrants that target journalists and news organizations,�

Project Censored observed.

They ended with a quote from Ramya Krishnan, staff attorney for the Knight institute, summarizing the stakes: “National security surveillance authorities confer extraordinary powers. The government’s failure to share more information about them damages journalists’ ability to protect their sources, and jeopardizes the news gathering process.�

2. Think Tank Partnerships Establish Facebook as a Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy In the name of ďŹ ghting “fake newsâ€? to protect American democracy from “foreign inuences,â€? Facebook formed a set of partnerships with three expert foreign inuencers in 2018, augmenting its bias toward censorship of left/progressive voices.

In May 2018, Facebook announced its partnership with the Atlantic Council, a NATO-sponsored D.C. think tank, to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.â€? “It’s funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force, along with NATO, various foreign powers and major Western corporations, including weapons contractors and oil companies (including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell),â€? noted Adam Johnson, writing for the media watch group FAIR. It went on to note that the major news outlets covering the story said nothing about any of the above conicts of interest.

In September, Facebook announced it would also partner with two Cold War-era U.S. government-funded propaganda organizations: the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute.

In October 2018, Jonathan Sigrist, writing for Global Research, described one of the greatest Facebook account and page purges in its troubled history: “559 pages and 251 personal accounts were instantly removed from the platform ‌ This is but one of similar yet smaller purges that have been

unfolding in front of our eyes over the last year, all in the name of ďŹ ghting ‘fake news’ and so called ‘Russian propaganda.’â€?

3. Indigenous Groups from Amazon Propose Creation of Largest Protected Area on Earth When news of unprecedented wildďŹ res in the Amazon grabbed headlines in late August, most Americans were ill-prepared to understand the story, in part because of systemic exclusion of indigenous voices and viewpoints, highlighted in Project Censored’s No. 3 story — the proposed creation of an Amazonian protected zone the size of Mexico, presented to the U.N. Conference on Biodiversity in November 2018.

The proposal, which Jonathan Watts, writing for The Guardian, described as “a 200m-hectare sanctuary for people, wildlife and climate stability that would stretch across borders from the Andes to the Atlantic,� was advanced by an alliance of some 500 indigenous groups from nine countries, known as COICA — the Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin, who called it, “a sacred corridor of life and culture.� “We have come from the forest and we worry about what is happening,� declared Tuntiak Katan, vice president of COICA, in The Guardian. “This space is the world’s last great sanctuary for biodiversity.

It is there because we are there.

Other places have been destroyed.�

The Guardian went on to note: “The organisation does not recognise national boundaries, which were put in place by colonial settlers and their descendants without the consent of indigenous people who have lived in the Amazon for millennia. Katan said the group was willing to talk to anyone who was ready to protect not just biodiversity but the territorial rights of forest communities.�

In contrast, The Guardian, explained: Colombia previously outlined a similar triple-A (Andes, Amazon and Atlantic) protection project that it planned to put forward with the support of Ecuador at next month’s climate talks. But the election of new right-wing leaders in Colombia and Brazil has thrown into doubt what would have been a major contribution

by South American nations to reduce emissions.

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FEATURE Climate Change warned that we have just 12 years to limit catastrophic climate change, Oil Change International released a report that went virtually ignored, warning that the United States was headed in exactly the wrong direction.

The report, Drilling Towards Disaster, warned that rather than cutting down carbon emissions, as required to avert catastrophe, the United States under Donald Trump was dramatically increasing fossil fuel production, with the United States on target to account for 60 percent of increased carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, expanding extraction at least four times more than any other country.

References to the report “have been limited to independent media outlets,” Project Censored noted.

“Corporate news outlets have not reported on the report’s release or its findings, including its prediction of 120 billion tons of new carbon pollution or its five-point checklist to overhaul fossil fuel production in the U.S.” 5. Modern Slavery in the United States, Around the World An estimated 403,000 people in the United States were living in conditions of “modern slavery” in 2016, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, or GSI, about 1 percent of the global total. The GSI defines “modern slavery” broadly to include forced labor and forced marriage.

Because forced marriage accounts for 15 million people, more than a third of the global total, it’s not surprising that females form a majority of the victims (71 percent).

The highest levels were found in North Korea, where an estimated 2.6 million people — 10 percent of the population — are victims of modern slavery.

The GSI is produced by the Walk Free Foundation, whose founder, Andrew Forrest, called the U.S. figure, “a truly staggering statistic, (which) is only possible through a tolerance of exploitation.”

“Walk Free’s methodology includes extrapolation using national surveys, databases of information of those who were assisted in trafficking cases, and reports from other agencies like the U.N.’s International Labour Organization,” explained The Guardian, to compile its figures.

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according to others working in the field, The Guardian noted. There’s no universal legal definition, and tabulation difficulties abound. But the GSI addresses this as an issue for governments to work on and offers specific proposals.

“The GSI noted that forced labor occurred ‘in many contexts’ in the U.S., including in agriculture, among traveling sales crews, and — as recent legal cases against GEO Group, Inc. have revealed — as the result of compulsory prison labor in privately owned and operated detention facilities contracted by the Department

outlets, which focused on Brown’s biography and the details of her case,” Project Censored wrote, “independent news organizations, including The Guardian, Democracy Now!, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, stood out for reporting that cases like Brown’s are all too common.”

Later in January, Kellie Murphy’s Rolling Stone story quoted Alisa Bierria, another Survived and Punished co-founder, and highlighted several other cases prominent in alternative media coverage. In May, Mother Jones reported on the legislative

“Again and again, the reports show, the police were quickly — and with little investigation — closing the cases, often within days, or even hours,” ProPublica stated. of Homeland Security,” Project Censored noted.

Newly restrictive immigration policies have further increased the vulnerability of undocumented persons and migrants to modern slavery.

6. Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking Criminalized for Self-Defense On Jan. 7, outgoing Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who had been sentenced to life in prison in 2004, at age 16, for killing a man who bought her for sex and raped her.

Brown’s case gained prominence via the support of A-list celebrities and Haslam cited “the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life.” But despite public impressions, Brown’s case was far from unique.

“There are thousands of Cyntoia Browns in prison,” organizer Mariame Kaba, co-founder of Survived and Punished, told Democracy Now! the next day.

“We should really pay attention to the fact that we should be fighting for all of those to be free,” Kaba said. “When you look at women’s prisons, the overwhelming majority, up to 90 percent of the people in there, have had histories of sexual and physical violence prior to ending up in prison.”

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progress that Survived and Punished and its allies had achieved in advancing state and federal legislation.

“Corporate news organizations provided considerable coverage of Cyntoia Brown’s clemency,” Project Censored noted. “However, many of these reports treated Brown’s case in isolation, emphasizing her biography or the advocacy on her behalf by celebrities such as Rihanna, Drake, LeBron James, and Kim Kardashian West.”

It went on to cite examples from the New York Times and NBC News that did take a broader view, but failed to focus on sex trafficking or sexual violence.

7. Flawed Investigations of Sexual Assaults in Children’s Immigrant Shelters “Over the past six months, ProPublica has gathered hundreds of police reports detailing allegations of sexual assaults in immigrant children’s shelters,” ProPublica reported in November 2018. “[The shelters] have received $4.5 billion for housing and other services since the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2014 [and the reports reveal that] both staff and other residents sometimes acted as predators.”

“Again and again, the reports show, the police were quickly — and with little investigation — closing the cases, often within

days, or even hours,” ProPublica stated.

In the case of Alex (a 13-year-old from Honduras), used to highlight systemic problems, the police investigation lasted 72 minutes, and resulted in a three sentence report. There was surveillance video showing two older teenagers grabbing him, throwing him to the floor and dragging him into a bedroom. But ProPublica reported, “An examination of Alex’s case shows that almost every agency charged with helping Alex — with finding out the full extent of what happened in that room — had instead failed him.”

“Because immigrant children in detention are frequently moved, even when an investigator wanted to pursue a case, the child could be moved out of the investigating agency’s jurisdiction in a just few weeks, often without warning,” Project Censored noted. “When children are released, parents or relatives may be reluctant to seek justice, avoiding contact with law enforcement because they are undocumented or living with someone who is.”

8. U.S. Women Face Prison Sentences for Miscarriages “There has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, candidate Donald Trump said in early 2016, which led to a wave of denials from antiabortion activists and politicians, who claimed it was not their position. These women were victims, too, they argued: That had always been their position.

But that wasn’t true, as Rewire.

News reported at the time. Women were already in prison, not for abortions, but for miscarriages alleged to be covert abortions. And that could become much more widespread due to actions taken by the Trump administration, according to a 2019 Ms. Magazine blog post by Naomi Randolph on the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, especially if the decision is overturned.

“Pregnant women could face a higher risk of criminal charges for miscarriages or stillbirths, due to lawmakers in numerous states enacting laws that recognize fetuses as people, separate from the mother,” Project Censored explained, adding: One example that Randolph provided is in Alabama, where voters recently passed a measure that “endows fetus’ with ‘personhood’ rights for the first time, potentially making any

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action that impacts a fetus a criminal behavior with potential for prosecution.” Collectively, these laws have resulted in hundreds of American women facing prosecution for the outcome of their pregnancies.

In fact, a 2015 joint ProPublica/ AL.com investigation, found that “at least 479 new and expecting mothers have been prosecuted across Alabama since 2006,” under an earlier child endangerment law, passed with meth lab explosions in mind, which the “personhood movement” got repurposed to target stillbirths, miscarriages and suspected self-abortions.

9. Developing Countries’ Medical Needs Unfulfilled by Big Pharma “The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firms have failed to develop two-thirds of the 139 urgently needed treatments in developing countries,” Julia Kollewe reported for The Guardian in November 2018, according to a report by Access to Medicine Foundation, which “found that most firms focus on infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis but had failed to focus on other serious ailments … . In particular, the foundation called for an infants’ vaccine for cholera and a singledose oral cure for syphilis.”

It’s not all bad news. “The foundation’s report also highlighted 45 best and innovative practices that could ‘help raise the level of standard practice’ and ‘achieve greater access to medicine,’” Project Censored noted.

“The report highlights examples such as the development of a child-friendly chewable tablet for roundworm and whipworm, which infect an estimated 795 million people,” The Guardian reported.

“Johnson & Johnson has pledged to donate 200m doses a year until 2020.” The possibilities underscore why attention is vital.

Attention makes a difference, Project Censored pointed out: In an effort to mobilize investors to pressure pharmaceutical companies to make more medicines available to developing countries, the foundation presented the findings of its reports to 81 global investors at events in London, New York, and Tokyo. As of April 2019, Access

to Medicine reported that, since the release of the 2018 Access to Medicine Index in November 2018, 90 major investors had pledged support of its research and signed its investor statement.

But attention has been sorely lacking in the corporate media.

“With the exception of a November 2018 article by Reuters, news of the Access to Medicine Index’s findings appear to have gone unreported in the corporate press,” Project Censored concluded.

10. Pentagon Aims to Surveil Social Media to Predict Domestic Protests “The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the U.S.,” Nafeez Ahmed reported for Motherboard in October 2018, drawing on “scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings.” Specifically, “The social media posts of American citizens who don’t like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest U.S. military-funded research,” which in turn “is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the U.S. military’s role and influence on domestic intelligence.”

The Pentagon had previously funded Big Data research into predicting mass population behavior, “specifically the outbreak of conflict, terrorism, and civil unrest,” especially in the wake of the Arab Spring, via a program known as “Embers.”

But such attention wasn’t solely focused abroad, Ahmed noted, calling attention to a U.S. Armybacked study on civil unrest within the U.S. homeland, titled “Social Network Structure as a Predictor of Social Behavior: The Case of Protest in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.”

Ahmed discussed two specific patents which contribute to “a sophisticated technology suite capable of locating the ‘home’ position of users to within 10 kilometers for millions of Twitter accounts, and predicting thousands of incidents of civil unrest from micro-blogging streams on Tumblr.”

Project Censored made no mention of any coverage of this story by the corporate media.

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GET OUT everything you should do this week

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series at Music Box Supper Club that pairs fine food with storytelling. The goal of the series is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ‘n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. Tonight, Mary Kay Cabot, a Browns beat reporter for Cleveland.com, talks about the team.

(Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

Lakes Theater tonight presents its take on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Hanna Theatre, where performances continue through Nov. 3. Tickets cost $15 to $80. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FILM

Memory: The Origins of Alien This documentary film offers an in-depth voyage into the classic sci-fi flick Alien with the visionary filmmakers who created it. “See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears,” boasts a press release about the screening that takes place at 9:30 tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets cost $9.75 for adults, $8.75 for students, and $7 for seniors. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

THEATER

FILM

Julius Caesar One of 40 professional theater companies across the nation selected to perform a Shakespeare play with a professional team of actors for middle- and high-schools and conduct related educational activities for the students, Great

Native Son Set in contemporary Chicago but largely shot in Cleveland, Native Son, the directorial debut of visual artist Rashid Johnson, is an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel about the black experience in America. Ashton Sanders plays

Bigger Thomas, who takes a job as live-in chauffeur for a wealthy white businessman and experiences as “seductive new world of money and power” before entering into a relationship with his boss’s daughter (Margaret Qualley). The film shows tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.

Admission is free but tickets are required and donations will be accepted. A discussion will follow the screening. See the Cinematheque website for more info. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

pop singer Donna Summer, centers on how a girl from Boston with a “voice from heaven” went from singing gospel music to becoming a dance-floor diva. The score features more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits, including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls” and “Hot Stuff.”

Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at Connor Palace, where performances continue through Oct. 27. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Pipeline A dedicated inner-city school teacher sends her own son to private school in Pipeline, “a compelling, must-see portrait of the systemic school-toprison pipeline and the experience of being a parent to a young black man in America.” The Cleveland Playhouse production continues in the Outcalt Theatre through Nov. 3.

Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30. Tickets start at $20. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

THEATER

Summer Summer, a musical about the life of

MUSIC

Beethoven’s Seventh The Cleveland Orchestra first performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 100 years ago, on Nov. 2, 1919, under the baton of Nikolai Sokoloff.

Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall, with Jaap van Zweden conducting, the orchestra will give it another go. The concert will also include pieces by Louis Andreissen and Prokofiev. A pre-concert preview takes place an hour prior to the performance. During it, guest speaker Rabbi Roger C. Klein will discuss Beethoven’s masterpiece.

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Consult the orchestra website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

COMEDY

George Lopez The co-creator, writer, producer, and star of The George Lopez Show, a sit-com that was a hit in the early 2000s, George Lopez became a household name. He continues to work in television and film but regularly hits the comedy clubs on standup tours. He performs tonight

annual Boo at the Zoo will be in full swing this weekend with unlimited 4-D Theater movies, carousel and train rides, costumed characters and a monster mash dance party. Each night, the first 1,000 guests will receive a special treat bag courtesy of Meijer. The festivities run from 5 to 9 p.m. today through Sunday, and then continue on weekends through

galleries will participate in this popular indoor art walk; be sure to check out spots like the Derek Hess Gallery, Tregoning & Company and Hilary Gent Studio. Look for food trucks out front and live music on the first floor. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m. and admission is free. (Niesel) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

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FAMILY FUN

Consume & Conserve Friendraiser Declining water quality, loss of wetlands habitat, natural predators and illegal poaching have threatened spotted turtles in Northeast Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Aquarium’s Splash Fund and SPOTD, a collection of regional environmental and educational agencies, have teamed up to try to save the creatures. Last year, Terrestrial Brewing Company joined the effort. The local craft brewer donated proceeds from the sale of a special brew to the cause and raised $5,000 in the first year of the partnership. From 6 to 9 tonight, Terrestrial will host a free Consume & Conserve Friendraiser to provide updates on the efforts to boost and monitor spotted turtle populations in Northeast Ohio. There will be a raffle, and attendees can help the cause by purchasing a spotted turtle plush, ordering a limited edition Save the Spotteds T-shirt or just buying a pint of Terrestrial’s I Am Still Saving the Turtles IPA. (Niesel) 7524 Father Frascati, 216-465-9999, facebook.com/terrestrialbrewing.

Bootanical Bash An annual event at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, Bootanical Bash encourages kids of all ages to dress in costume, participate in trick-ortreating and experience enchanting lights in the Hershey Children’s Garden. There will be games, a dance party and more. The event takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. today and tomorrow. Tickets cost $12 for a member child (2 and older), $10 for a member adult, $18 for a nonmember child and $15 for a nonmember adult. (Niesel) 11030 East Blvd., 216-721-1600, cbgarden.org.

LOCALS ROCK!

Take advantage of the exclusive admission rate for Northeast Ohio residents and turn next weekend up to 11. Dive into our two newest experiences inside the Rock Hall - The Garage and The Power of Rock.

Northeast Ohio Resident discount is available at the Box Office by showing a valid ID with ZIP code beginning in 440, 441, 442 or 443.

FAMILY FUN

Captain NEO’s Hauntaquarium A child-focused Halloween party, Captain NEO’s Hauntaquarium returns to the Greater Cleveland Aquarium tonight and tomorrow night from 6 to 9. Tickets cost $12, or $10 for Greater Cleveland Aquarium members. The price of admission includes full aquarium access as well as Nora the Explorer animal encounters, a DJ dance party, “campfire” stories, photo opportunities, slime-making, magic and more. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

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Film Cafe Earlier this year, the Music Box Supper Club launched a new Film Cafe series. The club partnered with the Cleveland Film Commission and Cleveland State University School of Film and Media Arts for the series which offers “a fun environment for fans and other film industry pros to learn more about filmmaking from each other.” Each month, a local film expert dissects a specific topic and lead a discussion about a specific theme. The event also serves as a networking session, and there will be food and beverage specials.

Tonight’s guest, John Ewing, the director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and also the film curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will talk about “the secrets of speciality film exhibition.” Doors open at 5 p.m. Admission is free.

(Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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Go to rockhall.com/visit and start planning your tour today. at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Hilarities.

Tickets cost $45. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Boo at the Zoo The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s

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Oct. 27. Consult the zoo’s website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

ART

78th Street Studios Third Friday Art Walk Time again for the Third Friday Art Walk at the cavernous 78th Street Studios. More than 50 studios and

Carmen Set to the music of Georges Bizet and live flamenco guitar, the Cleveland Ballet’s new interpretation of Carmen promises to be “a tale of passion, romance, and sensuality.” It centers on a Spanish gypsy woman (Dayneliz Muñoz) who seeks to save herself by seducing a certain Don Jose (Rainer Diaz). Russian guitar master Yury Nugmanov and Russian-American mezzo-soprano Zoya Gramagin are featured guests.

Performances take place tonight at 8 and tomorrow night at 7 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

MUSIC

Cleveland Guitar Trio Tonight and tomorrow at 8, the Cleveland Guitar Trio plays at the

Stocker Arts Center in Lorain. The group, which includes Dareen Frate, who’s just finished recording a new CD, Patrick Woods and Doug Wood, who’s just returned from a 13-show tour, will play a mix of solo and collaborative works. Tickets cost $20, or $10 for Lorain County Community College students.

(Niesel) 1005 North Abbe Rd., Elyria, 440-366-4040, lorainccc.edu.

COMEDY

Dane Cook Hugely popular in the early 2000s when he was headlining arenas, comedian Dane Cook continues to hit the standup circuit on a regular basis. The guy’s resume includes numerous Comedy Central and HBO specials, and he’s put out several successful comedy albums too. Recorded in Boston, his 2005 album, Retaliation, became the highest charting comedy album in 28 years and went double platinum.

Cook performs tonight at 8 at MGM Northfield Park–Center Stage.

Tickets cost $65 to $115. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, mgmnorthfieldpark.mgmresorts. com.

THEATER

Copenhagen Presented by Cesear’s Forum in a limited engagement, the Tony Award-winning Copenhagen centers on an actual meeting that took place between the two great physicists, Germany’s Werner Heisenberg and Denmark’s Niels Bohr, in 1941, in occupied Denmark. The play is presented fictionally, “inside the heads” of three characters, as they relive their memories and speculate on the meaning, and consequences, of their actions. A deep dive into the difficulty of ever truly knowing oneself or others, Copenhagen is as much about philosophy as physics.

Tonight’s performance takes place at 8 in the intimate Kennedy’s Down Under, in Playhouse Square. Tickets cost $18, and the show continues through Oct. 26. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FILM + ART

Exhibition on Screen: Michaelangelo – Life and Death A documentary film directed by David Bickerstaff, Michelangelo – Love and Death examines some of the Renaissance artist’s most iconic works of art. It shows in conjunction with the current Michelangelo

exhibit that’s on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It screens tonight at 7 at the CMA, where it also can be seen at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Gory at the Quarry Gory at the Quarry, an annual end-of-season Halloween bash, returns to Nelson Ledges Quarry Park this weekend. It features Quarry favorites John Welton & The Awakening headlining tomorrow night. The event will also feature a costume contest, a chili cookoff, bonfires, apple bobbing, and a haunted campsite contest. The Derek Woods Band, John Dante & the Inferno, and Steel City Sabbath are also slated to play. Admission is $65 ($55 presale) for Friday through Sunday, or $45 ($35 presale) for Saturday through Sunday. Thursday arrivals are an extra $20. There is no extra charge for camping. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

COMEDY

Pete Lee The first standup comedian to get a standing ovation on The

Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, comedian Pete Lee likes to joke about how he’s such a huge people pleaser, he even hugs Uber drivers goodbye and offers to drive for them. The nerdy comic is currently a cast member of TruTV’s Greatest Ever and hosts NFL Rush on Nickelodeon’s Nick Toons. He performs at 7 and 9 tonight at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Check the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

THEATER

The Member of the Wedding At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella, The Member of the Wedding, into a play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950. It depicts the “intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South.” Regional talent Eric Schmiedl direct this version of the play at the Beck Center for the Arts through Nov. 3. The cast includes Lisa Louise Langford, Ellie Ritterbusch, Chase Oberhaus, Peter Lawson Jones, Corin B. Self and Fred Gloor. Tonight’s performance takes place at 8, and

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Group and student discounts are available. (Niesel) 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-2540, beckcenter.org.

BOOKS

Moses and Millionaires, Rockefeller and Rock ‘n’ Roll John J. Grabowski, a historian and professor who authored Cleveland A to Z, and Alan F. Dutka, a researcher and speaker who wrote Cleveland Millionaires’ Row, will appear tonight at 7:30 at Visible Voice books for a joint book talk and signing. Cleveland A to Z features 72 short articles about real people, places and events that reveal the issues, attitudes and quirks that define our fine town. Grabowski originally developed the book for the Western Reserve Historical Society’s 150th anniversary celebration, and almost every historical photo is pulled from its collection. Cleveland’s Millionaire’s Row “examines a particular point in the city’s development — a moment when extravagant monuments to the immense wealth and power lined Euclid Avenue.” It includes visuals and “well-researched commentary.”

Admission is free. There will be food, beverages (including beer, wine and coffee) and books available for purchase. (Niesel) 2258 Professor Ave., 216-961-0084, visiblevoicebooks.com.

THEATER

The Music Man Tonight at 7:30 at the Hanna Theatre, Great Lakes Theater presents its version of The Music Man, the play about salesman Harold Hill and his attempts to con people into buying instruments and uniforms for a band he never intends to form. The six-time Tony-winning musical features tunes such as “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Ya Got Trouble” and “Till There Was You.” Performances continue through Nov. 10. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FUNDRAISER

Shake Your Bones A networking group for professionals who are fans of the Grateful Dead, Networking is Dead holds several special events each year. There is no cost to join the group; fans can sign up at

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networkingisdead.net. Tonight at 7:30 at the Music Box, the group presents its latest program, Shake Your Bones; proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Achievement Centers for Children. The evening will feature music from the Garcia Project, a Grateful Dead raffle and a Halloween theme. Tickets are $27 in advance. The Garcia Project was formed in San Francisco in 2010.

They perform complete Jerry Garcia Band shows from 1976 to 1995, with era-specific equipment and arrangements. Networking is Dead’s past nonprofit partners include the Upside of Downs, Youth Challenge, Autism Speaks, and LEAP. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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is even similar to the Boondocks character he portrays; it features fast-paced jokes that keep coming at you. He has shows scheduled at the Improv through Sunday. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

MUSIC + ART + PUPPETS

Zohn Collective with Mexican Puppet Company La Coperacha Tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Zohn Collective and La Coperacha Puppet Company from Guadalajara, Mexico, will present an evening-length concert, based on Oaxacan artist Alejandro Santiago’s sculpture project 2501 Migrants, a piece that premiered last year at the Festival Cultural de Mayo in Guadalajara. Composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, a MexicanAmerican composer living in New York, will lead the well-known and well-regarded La Coperacha Puppet Company in a kind of quasitheatrical experience. Consult the art museum website for ticket prices.

(Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

Stranger Things: The Book of the Beast A national cast of burlesque and drag acts will be on hand for Stranger Things: Book of the Beast, a special pre-Halloween burlesque show that takes place tonight at 8 at the Alex Theatre at the 9, and tomorrow night at 7:30 at the Beachland Ballroom. Tonight’s show features acts such as Femmi Le Freak, Ravea Chainsaw, Bella Sin, Miss Holly Grail, Deva Diamond and Emerald Von Bliss. Samantha Echo serves as the host. Tickets cost $20 for general admission, and $25 for preferred seating. Tomorrow night’s acts include Dean D’monic, Bella Sin, Bee Awkward, Lakota Shekhar, Jared Jamason, Matt Cockrin, Juicy Gem, Fonda Sweets, Hellcat Rose, Poppy Poison, Carmen M’Knoxide and Jade Wilde. Ken Schneck will host. Those tickets cost $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Both nights will offer reserved seating and VIP options. There will be a King and Queen of Fight Night Costume Contest and other “ghoulish surprises.” Find out more on the website below. (Niesel) ohioburlesque.com.

12 Hours of Terror Dubbed 12 Hours of Terror, tonight’s horror movie marathon at the Capitol Theatre will feature a 35th anniversary screening of A Nightmare on Elm Street, along with Scream, Bloody Birthday, Parasite 3-D, Dawn of the Dead and two surprise secret screenings.

There will be a free cake and ice cream break to celebrate the series’ 10th anniversary. It all starts at 6 p.m., and tickets cost $30 in advance, or $35 at the door. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

COMEDY

BEER

John Witherspoon If you’re going to see comedian John Witherspoon tonight at the Improv, where he performs at 7:30 and 10, you’d better dress up — because “you got to coordinate,” as he puts it.

That catchphrase comes from one of the comedian’s signature routines.

Witherspoon has worked alongside famous comedians such as Ice Cube, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Chris Tucker, and starred as Pops on The Wayans Brothers. But he might be best known for voicing “Grandad” on the animated series The Boondocks. His standup routine

Cleveland Beer Week An annual fest that features hundreds of events at local bars and eateries — including keg tappings, beer pairings, tasting dinners, brewer meet-and-greets, and educational sessions throughout Greater Cleveland — Cleveland Beer Week commences today with all sorts of reasons to hoist a glass. For instance, there’s an Oysterfest at Beer Engine, a Bell’s tap takeover at Tremont Taphouse, a “mother and father” of tap takeovers at Winking Lizard in Lakewood and a Pumking Prowl at Southern Tier. Check the

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website for all the details. (Niesel) clevelandbeerweek.org.

FILM + MUSIC

Home Movie Day The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and its Library & Archives host Home Movie Day at 1:30 p.m. today at the Rock Hall. The event is free with a reservation at ticketing. rockhall.com. The event will feature a compilation ďŹ lm of rock performance footage assembled from local home video and ďŹ lm donations, and clips will include never-beforeseen footage of Northeast Ohio acts such as the Pagans, Hammer Damage and Devo. Some of the ďŹ lm and video donors will be on hand to share their stories about the performances featured. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

FAMILY FUN

I-X Trick or Treat Street Today and tomorrow, the I-X Center welcomes trick or treaters to its annual I-X Trick or Treat Street.

Twelve creatively themed â&#x20AC;&#x153;boo-tasticâ&#x20AC;? candy stations will pass out treats, and there will be kiddie rides and entertainment. The fun takes place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Check the I-X Center site for ticket prices. Parking costs $10. (Niesel) One I-X Center Dr., 216-676-6000, ixcenter.com.

MUSIC + MESSAGE

A Mad, Burning Desire An issues-minded musical ensemble, Burning River Baroque launched its season earlier this year with A Mad, Burning Desire, a show designed to shed light on â&#x20AC;&#x153;unconventional 17th-century women and issues surrounding mental health.â&#x20AC;? A Mad, Burning Desire tells the story of the ďŹ rst English actresses who gained the legal right to act on the public stage in the early 1660s. Codirectors Paula Maust (harpsichord) and Malina Rauschenfels (soprano) will engage in dialogues with the audience about â&#x20AC;&#x153;how the perception of mental health issues in the early modern period directly relates to the stigma surrounding mental health in contemporary times.â&#x20AC;? The group brings a special performance of the show to Blank Canvas CLE tonight at 7:30. There is a suggested donation of $10 to $20. (Niesel) 2174 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, burning-river-baroque.org.

PUB PARTY

Parnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub 22nd Anniversary Party In October 1997, Declan Synnott debuted Parnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, and the pub

The Juniper Tree

quickly became a neighborhood hot spot. Since then, Synnott has relocated the original Parnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the Cedar Fairmount neighborhood and opened another location at Playhouse Square. Today at the Cedar Fairmount location, Synnott will celebrate the pubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22nd anniversary and launch the Whiskey Experience. Participants in the Whiskey Experience will receive whiskey passports and head around the world sampling over 100 whiskeys. Anyone who ďŹ lls 70 percent of their whiskey passport within one year will receive a pair of personalized whiskey glasses, one to take home and one to keep at the bar for use when they visit. (They also will have the option to take the second glass home if they like.)

The ďŹ rst 20 people who complete a passport will be entered for a chance to win a customized Jameson jacket at the next party in October 2020.

(Niesel) 12425 Cedar Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-3469, facebook.com/parnellspub.

Thur., Oct. 31 | Sat., Nov. 2 | Sun., Nov. 3 7:30pm l Mixon Hall The Juniper Tree is based on one of the Brothers Grimmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s darkest, most mature tales, taking the idea of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;evil stepmotherâ&#x20AC;? to the extreme! Philip Glass and Robert Moran composed music in alternating scenes for this shocking and tuneful 1984 opera.

Featuring original ďŹ lms by Cleveland Institute of Art students, ďŹ lmed at Hale Farm and Village TICKETS: cim.edu/junipertree or 216.795.3211 Music by Philip Glass & Robert Moran | Libretto by Arthur Yorinks Š1985 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. | Used by Permission.

SIT DOWN WITH YOUR GUESTS.

BOOKS

David Sedaris A humorist whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s won awards for books such as Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sederis is known for his sardonic wit and social critiques.

His writings appear regularly in The New Yorker, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twice been included in The Best American Essays. His latest book is Calypso, a collection of his essays. A regular on the theater circuit, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely talk about his work and read a few recent pieces at tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, which takes place at 8 at the State Theatre.

Tickets start at $20. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

Call 216-241-7550 for more information.

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MUSIC

Neil Zazaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s One Dark Night: A Rock Concert of the Macabre According to the press release, local guitar wiz Neil Zaza will be presiding tonight over a â&#x20AC;&#x153;symphony of fear,â&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;mixes dark, powerful arrangements of macabre classical masterpieces â&#x20AC;Ś with the fury of a rock band and orchestra.â&#x20AC;? There also will be a guest appearance from Tim Ripper Owens. In addition, Verb Ballets will be performing the critically acclaimed Adagio Reimagined project as well as Dance Macabre. It all starts at 8 p.m. at the Akron Civic Theatre. Tickets cost $25 to $75. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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BAY-CON You can celebrate all things nerdy at today’s BAY-CON, BAYarts first student-based, family-friendly comics and art convention. There will be an art show by the students, free sketches drawn right in front of you by the artists of BAYarts, photo opps with characters from comics and movies, a trivia contest and more. Dress up in your favorite costume to win prizes. It all goes down from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at BAYarts. (Niesel) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-871-6543, bayarts.net.

FUNDRAISER

Bluegrass ‘n’ Blue Jeans, Featuring the Cleveland Bluegrass Orchestra Today at 5:30 p.m. at the Bop Stop, the Cleveland Bluegrass Orchestra plays a special benefit concert dubbed Bluegrass ’n’ Blue Jeans. It’s a fancy event, but the dress code is “denim casual attire.” Hosted by Friends of the Cleveland Orchestra, the event benefits the Cleveland Orchestra education program, Mindful Music Moments. Tickets start at $150. (Niesel) 2920 Detroit Ave., 216-771-6551, themusicsettlement.org.

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FILM

Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $5 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices.

Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas.

Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3-D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

WRESTLING

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organization. Tonight’s edition features wrestling superstars Lacey Evans, Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin. It all goes down tonight at 7:30 at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Tickets start at $20.

(Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com.

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FUNDRAISER

Fostering HOPS The local nonprofit Fostering Hope will host its fourth annual fundraiser, Fostering HOPS, today at 5:30 p.m. in the Van Aken District on Tuttle Road. There will be guest bartenders, a silent auction, food and live DJs, including local DJ Zosimo Maximo. The event will kick off with a special ticketed Chef Challenge featuring James Beard Awardwinning chefs Jonathon Sawyer of Sawyer’s and Greenhouse Tavern, and Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine. Xhibition, an apparel and footwear retailer, will feature a special VIP area where DJ Steph Floss, who DJs at Cavs games, will make an appearance. This annual fundraiser supports Fostering Hope’s mission of “enriching the lives of children living in foster care and residential treatment by providing unique experiences and giving the community opportunities to profoundly impact a child’s life.” This year, Fostering Hope will likely serve more than 1,000 children through programming centered on childhood experiences, heath and wellness, and community involvement. Ticket prices range from $75 to $250 and are available on the website. (Niesel) 3401 Tuttle Rd., Shaker Heights, fosteringhopeohio.org.

FILM

Through the Olive Trees Through the Olive Trees centers on a bricklayer, who stars in a movie being shot in an earthquake-ravaged Iranian village. He falls in love with his nonprofessional co-star, but she refuses to talk to him because of his lower station in life.

The film represents the conclusion to Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy. It screens today at 1:45 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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PEPPER PIKE

MAYFIELD VILLAGE

2266 Warrensville Center Rd. University Heights, OH 44118 216-371-5643

29425 Chagrin Boulevard Pepper Pike, OH 44122 216-831-1595

6687 Wilson Mills Rd. Mayfield Village,OH 44040 440-442-9600

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Friends don’t let friends eat at chains!

21919 Center Ridge Rd. Rocky River, OH 44116

440 333-9663 thewoodsrestaurant.com

Offering A Full Menu Of Homemade Authentic Italian Meals From Appetizers To Entrees

Our pizza dough undergoes a cold 2-day fermentation, which gives us a unique, crispy, and airy texture.

We source as much local produce as possible and use the finest quality of tomatoes to create a one-of-a-kind pie.

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2144 W.25th Street | Cleveland , Ohio 44113 | (216) 860-1388 15710 Waterloo Rd | Cleveland Ohio 44110 | (216) 417-2742

7305 Broadview Rd | Seven Hills, OH 44130| (216) 236-6007

49streettavern.com

10” GYRO FLATBREAD

Gyro Meat, Red Onion, Tomato, Feta Cheese, Tzaziki Sauce

10” BBQ CHICKEN FLATBREAD

BBQ Sauce, Red Onion, Chicken Breast, Shredded Cheddar Cheese

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12” SMOKED PEPPERONI Mozz, Oregano, Pepperoni

12” NYC STYLE PIE Mozz, Tomato Sauce, Oregano

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BallantineRestaurant.com

4113 Erie street | Willoughby , Ohio 44094 (440) 942-5151

10” TUSCAN CHICKEN

Featuring our white bechamel sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan, & Ricotta cheese, chicken, bacon, cherry tomato and a blend of Italian herbs.

COLLISION BEND B R E W I N G C O M PA N Y collisionbendbrewery.com

1250 Old River Road | Cleveland, Ohio 44113 } (216) 273-7879

barcento.com

10” MARGHERITA PIZZA

DA N N Y BOY’S P IZ Z A

1948 West 25th Street | Cleveland, Oh 44113 | (216) 274-1010

dannyboyspizza.com

12” MARINARA

24129 Lorain Rd., North Olmsted, OH 44870 | (440) 360-7800 20251 Lake Rd, Rocky River, OH 44116 | (440) 333-9595 8158 Broadview Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147 | (440) 526-5454

bright tomato sauce, mozzarella, aged provolone

12” BIANCO

sliced garlic, mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil

10” THE ORIGINAL CLEVELANDER

New York thin crust, five-cheese blend, basil, sprinkle garlic and double pepperoni topped Chicago style with pizza sauce and parmesan cheese. The best pizza right here in Cleveland - between Chicago and New York!

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beerheadbar.com/locations/cleveland-flats 1156 W 11th St | Cleveland, OH 44113 | (216) 621-2000

12” GOODFELLA

Tomato Sauce, Shredded Mozzarella, Bacon, Pepperoni, Mild Sausage, Herbs

12” POPEYE

“Olive Oyl,” Black Pepper, Shredded Mozzarella, Spinach, Fontina, Parmesan, Garlic

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10” SIS’S PIG & FIG

Fig preserves, prosciutto ham, caramelized onions, Mozzarella & Gorgonzola cheese baked golden brown and topped with arugula and evoo drizzle.

10” TOSCANA

Red sauce, mozzarella and provolone cheese, prosciutto ham, artichokes, capers & pepperoni

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T H E FA I R M O U N T thefairmount.net

2448 Fairmount Blvd | Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 | (216) 229-9463

Margherita Pizza with sliced tomatoes, parmesan, mozzarella, basil and tomato sauce.

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10” ITALIAN MEATS

Italian Meats and Cheese – Grilled heirloom tomato marinara, Shredded chicken sausage, soppresatta, salumi, fresh mozzarella, and pickled peppers.

10” VEGAN LEBANESE

Roasted curried cauliflower and peas garnished with a lemon thyme tahini, and five spice almond

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29425 Chagrin Boulevard | Pepper Pike, OH 44122 | (216) 831-1595 2266 Warrensville Center Road | University Hts., OH 44118 | 216-371-5643 6687 Wilson Mills Rd. | Mayfield Village,OH 44040 } 440-442-9600

10” GERACI’S ONE TOPPING CLASSIC

Traditional style pizza baked to perfection with a choice of one topping

1059 Old River Rd | Cleveland , Ohio 44113 | (216) 523-1504

10” BIANCO ARANCIO

goat cheese + garlic cream + red onions + truffle honey + roasted pumpkin + pepitas + crispy parsnips

10” PEANUT BUTTER S’MORES PIZZA

L I N D E Y’S L A K E H O US E lindeyslakehouse.com 15625 Detroit Ave. | Lakewood,Ohio 44107 | (216) 303-9699 1146 Old River Rd. | Cleveland,Ohio 44113 | 216-727-0158 2101 Richmond Rd. | Beachwood, Ohio 44122 | 216-342-5030

10” MARGHERITA

B I GA WO O D FI R E D P IZ ZE R I A bigawoodfiredpizzeriaoh.com

9145 Chillicothe Rd | Kirtland, Ohio 44094 | (440) 379-7503

12” BIGA PESTO

Homemade Basil pesto,(contains nuts and cheese), Fire roasted tomatoes,, extra virgin olive oil, chopped garlic and fresh mozzarella cheese. finished with extra virgin olive oil and Fresh Basil from Great Lakes Growers

12” SWEET FRESH SAUSAGE

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D E W E Y’S P IZ Z A deweyspizza.com

10” PEPPERONI

2194 Lee Rd | Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | (216) 321-7355 18516 Detroit Ave | Lakewood, OH 44107 (216) 228-2299 3265 W Market St (Summit Mall) | Fairlawn , OH 44333 | (330) 873-4444

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11” CAPRICE

M I K E Y’S P IZ Z A

The classic pairing of olive oil and minced garlic is accompanied by shredded fontina cheese, freshly sliced basil, hand-cut fresh mozzarella, and bold, fire-roasted cherry tomatoes. (GF Crust available +$3)

11” MEATBALL

Looking for a good contemporary twist on an Italian classic?

Dewey’s signature red sauce joins fresh cut basil, hand-sliced fresh mozzarella, Italian meatballs, shaved parmesan, and a sprinkling of dried oregano to create an unmatched pizza specialty. (GF Crust available +$3)

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Whole milk mozzarella, tomato and fresh basil Pepperoni, Calabrian pepperoncini, fresh oregano

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185 Crocker Park Blvd | Westlake, OH 44145 | (440) 241-8910

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14290 State Rd. | North Royalton, Ohio 44133 | (440) 237-1770

10” PORK LOVERS

SA LT E D D O U G H A R T I SA N P IZ Z A & S O M U C H M O R E salteddough.com

10” PORK CONUNDRUM

10” BROCCOLI ALFREDO PIZZA

10” ROASTED TOASTED (VEGAN)

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O H I O C I T Y P IZ ZE R I A

Red Sauce, Felino Sausage, House Leek Sausage, House Bacon, Calabrian Chiles, Mozzarella, Sharpe Provolone

10” MEDITERRANEAN PIZZA

SAU C E D WO O D FI R E D P IZ Z A

12” PEPPERONI

PA PA N I C K’S P IZ Z A papanickspizzacleveland.com

11534 Clifton Blvd | Cleveland, Ohio 44102 | (216) 281-9191

14” MEATLOVERS

Pepperoni, Italian sausage, bacon, meatballs.

14” VEGGIE LOVERS PIZZA

21984 Lorain Road | Fairview Park, Ohio 44126 | (440) 799-4411

pizza216.com

401 Euclid Avenue | Cleveland, OH 44114 | (216) 741-7992

10” MAD GREEK

Gyro Meat, Feta Cheese, House Made Tzatki, Lettuce, Shaved Onion, Tomato

10’’ MARGARITA

Fresh Local Mozzarella, Olive Oil, Basil, Garlic

P IZ ZE R I A A N G I E’S pizzeriaangies.com

6120 Royalton Rd | North Royalton, Ohio 44133 | (440) 237-2440

12” PERFECT PEPPERONI

Our signature pepperoni, cup-n-char pepperoni, fresh mozzarella cheese, and finished with our signature blend of cheese and spices.

12” BBQ CHICKEN

Grilled chicken, bacon, red onion, provolone, and cheddar cheese, tangy barbeque sauce and finished with a drizzle of ranch dressing.

R PA SS P O RT STA M PE D

841 West Bagley Rd. | Berea, Ohio 44017 (440) 234-9700

Our homemade pizza sauce topped with sliced tomatoes, artichokes, and black olives baked and topped with fresh feta cheese.

T H E W I L D G O OS E wildgoosewlby.com

4144 Erie Street | Willoughby, Ohio 44095 | (440) 951-6644

Red Sauce, Breaded Chicken Breast Tenders, Tomatoes, Fresh Mozzarella, Shaved Parmesan, and Basil

14” THE MURPHY

Garlic Oil Base, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Smoked Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, and a Mozzarella/Provolone Cheese Blend Topped with a Sour Cream Drizzle

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SAU C Y B R E W WO R K S saucybrewworks.com

2885 Detroit Ave | Cleveland, Ohio 44113 | (216) 666-2568

12” NASHVILLE HOT CHICKEN

Saucy BBQ, smoked cheese mix, hot crispy Nashville chicken, dill pickles, pecorino romano (substitute Nashville cauliflower for hot crispy chicken).

Fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, red onions, green peppers and black olives.

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BBQ sauce, mozzarella cheese, chicken, bacon, pineapple, banana peppers, green pepper, and a touch of cinnamon.

tonyks.com

saucedwoodfiredpizza.com

Crispy pepperoni and gooey cheese piled on our traditional housemade sauce and doughy crust

10” MICHELLE’S LUAU PIZZA

Roast Garlic Confit Sauce, Roasted Cauliflower, Fresh Thyme, Garlic Roasted Potatoes, Rainbow Cherry Tomatoes, Fresh Grated Nutmeg, Pisano Extra Virgin Olive Oil

ohiocitypizzeria.org

3223 Lorain Ave | Cleveland, OH 44113 | (216) 281-5252

teamzrestaurant.com

6611 Eastland Road | Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 | (440) 243-7288

9174 Broadview Road | Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147 | (440) 587-1098

Brick oven pizza with our traditional sauce, blend of mozzarella/ provolone cheeses and topped with pepperoni, sausage, bacon and ham. Then we sprinkle some additional cheese to hold it all together.

Cauliflower gluten-free crust add $2.00.

Starts with our homemade alfredo sauce, a layer of mozzarella and provolone cheese, then we add broccoli, mushrooms and roasted red peppers and finish it off with more cheese

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T H E WO O DS R ES TAU R A N T A N D LO U N G E thewoodsrestaurant.com

21919 Center Ridge Rd. | Rocky River, OH 44116 | (440) 333-9663

10” PEPPERONI/SAUSAGE Our two most popular toppings on our six slice pie.

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stbcbeer.com/taprooms/cleveland

811 Prospect Ave E | Cleveland, Ohio 44115 | (440) 484-4045

12” HOT SAUSAGE PIZZA

Olive oil, roasted garlic, mozzarella, hot sausage, hot cherry peppers, pecorino, and oregano

ZE PPE’S Zeppe’s Tavern | ZeppesTavern.com 11110 Kinsman Road | Newbury, OH 44065 | (440) 564-1300 25780 Miles Road | Bedford Heights, OH 44146 | (216) 378-9400

Zeppe’s Bistro | ZeppesBistro.com 5843 Darrow Road | Hudson, OH 44236 | (330) 655-9600

TAV E R N O F L I T T L E I TA LY tolicleveland.com

12117 Mayfield Road | Cleveland, OH 44106 | (216) 331-1069

10” THE “JOEY GO” FLATBREAD

Thin crust flatbread, Basil Pesto, Mortadella, Smoked mozzarella, & pistachios

10” THE GOAT FLATBREAD

Tomato jam, balsamic braised onions, crispy bacon, goat cheese, arugula salad, drizzled with balsamic glaze

PIZZA WEEK KEY Vegan Option

Take Out Available

Gluten Free Option

Delivery Available

Zeppe’s Pizzeria | Zeppes.com 320 Broadway Ave. | Bedford, OH 44146 | (440) 232-3100 8235 East Washington St. | Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 | (440) 543-5004 110 Cherry Ave | Chardon, OH 44024 | (440) 286-9557 9950 Johnnycake Ridge Road | Concord Township, OH 44077 | (440) 357-5100 3333 Massillon Road | Green, OH 44312 | (330) 899-9921 5559 Wilson Mills Road | Highland Heights, OH 44143 | (440) 449-3522 15065 Kinsman Road | Middlefield, OH 44062 | (440) 834-0024 1983 Ridge Road | North Royalton, OH 44133 | (440) 582-5400 2736 Ridge Road N. | Perry Township, OH 44077 | (440) 392-9490

12” MEATBALL PEPPERONI PARMESAN Your choice of our signature zigzag or thin crust topped with marinara sauce, Italian meatballs, pepperoni, ricotta cheese, roasted garlic and provolone + mozzarella cheeses

12” OLD WORLD MARGHERITA Thin crust topped with Aglio E Olio garlic white sauce, Roma tomatoes, basil and fresh mozzarella + provolone + shredded mozzarella cheeses

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LIVE MUSIC TUESDAY/FRIDAY

GAME DAY PARTIES

DURING ALL CLEVELAND SPORTING EVENTS

www.collisionbendbrewery.com | 216-273-7879 | 1250 Old River Road, Cleveland, OH 44113

Cleveland Pizza Week creates such strong, lusty, even insane feelings that we decided it needed its own little manifesto.

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We expect that these restaurants will be extremely busy. So, if a place runs out toward the end of a shift, handle it like an adult: go back the next day, earlier, order your pizza, and thank them for working so hard. Please be nice to our restaurants.

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People have been talking about Cleveland Pizza Week 2019 for weeks. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if restaurants have waits. In fact, be surprised if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

$8 pizza brings out the cheap in all of us, but, really, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting a $12+ pizza (many restaurants go way overboard with ingredients, trying to outdo each other), so please tip generously. The people who are serving you are working harder during Pizza Week than at any other point in the year. A kind word will also be welcomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these people are our friends and neighbors.

Purchase of sides and extras is not a requirement. But we think it says a lot to those working hard to bring you an extraordinary experience. Grab some breadsticks.

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ART A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME In Mirror, Mirror at Waterloo Arts, a collection of artists reveal their lived experiences

By Dott von Schneider “IT’S AN INCREDIBLE GROUP OF artists, certainly the strongest show I’ve ever been part of,” says artist Lane Cooper as we walked through Mirror, Mirror at Waterloo Arts, and we have to agree.

Lines, color and symbols are steeped with tenacity in these works that are fused with singularity and purpose. They are bonded together with the exhibition space as the glue, and Cooper has indeed pulled together a mighty group of artists.

Amber Kempthorn’s “Close to the Edge” and “You Got Lucky” dance with a wild visual lexicon. Barnacles, birds, butterflies and tape measures are married with ghostlike maple seeds and leaves. Each symbol is as enigmatic as the next.

“Some of the things/places I draw (like the barnacles) are more deeply connected to something intimate or idiosyncratic from my biography,” Kempthorn tells us.“Though, like each of the elements — coffee mugs, shoes, a tape measure — they are selected with care because they’re identifiable to many. Sometimes a tape measure is just a tape measure I suppose, but I like to think about when and who might use one, and what it actually does, and maybe the viewer will too, which creates layers of meaning in each drawing.”

Photographer Amber Ford entered work that is an extension of self.

“All of my work is in some way an extension of me.” She admits she was hesitant to participate, not knowing if her pieces would fit, but we are very glad she did. Regarding “Untitled,” a portrait of a young black woman whose Afro fills the frame, Ford expounds: “I wanted to experiment with color backgrounds and gels to create a more dynamic image since a lot of my work tends to be different shades of black.” The curly fro is a hairstyle the artist wears often and something she wanted to illustrate.

“As an artist I wanted to make images that I didn’t see when going to school. I was thinking about some of the things black people do at night to protect their hair,” Ford says regarding the photograph titled “The Supremes,” wherein a couple wear rainbow colored do-rags, or bonnets, adding that, “I was thinking of the

“Strong Female Lead – Nyota” by Lane Cooper

level of comfort and confidence one has to be at to finally wear that in the presence of their significant other. In the image I am thinking of things like black love, black culture and vulnerability.”

We were intrigued by Erin Duhigg’s sculptures. “Erin Duhigg Mittens” are just that — a pair of mittens, but with silicone casts of the artist’s hand embedded in each garment. It is as awesome as

resonates with the exhibition statement in the sense that the paintings evoke a lived experience of the body with a clear female perspective, she revealed in our interview. “In the paintings ‘Bathtub’ and ‘Soak,’ I am presenting the viewer with an intimate first-person viewpoint of a woman in a bathtub.

Using myself as a model, this unique viewpoint blurs the distinctions of artist/model and subject/object.”

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it is almost creepy. The sculpture sits next to a grouping of prints titled “Anything you can do, I can do better.” Duhigg has used fingerprint powder to create three handprints using her own hand and that of “Erin Duhigg Mittens” to almost imply the duality of real and imagined. We totally dig the visual.

The work that Katy Richards chose to show for Mirror, Mirror

Richards’ signature style and palette augment her statement. Her paintings are suffused in muted pinks and baby blues. We can almost feel the coolness of the porcelain tub as we place our own self in the artwork, which is what the artist was certainly going for. “Footsie” is an entanglement of multiple pairs of feet. “The work is about vulnerability and intimacy. The

evidence of the (paint) brush paired with the imagery to evoke physical touching. The viewer can imagine the sensation how the body may feel and be aware of their own body’s sensation while considering the artist’s hand.”

Lane Cooper’s paintings perfectly jibe with the exhibition statement: “A work of art is the product of an artist’s choices. Some decisions are conscious and considered while others occur far outside the artist’s awareness. Embedded in the work are decisions that are a product of the artist’s lived experience. The work carries in both nuanced and profound ways the perspective of its creator.”

Within each of Cooper’s paintings we cavort with her palpable nuance.

“Strong Female Lead – Nyota” (pictured) is one of several paintings that spring from the artist’s memory into real life. In particular, the subject is Nichelle Nichols as Commander Nyota Uhura in Star Trek, the original series that the artist would watch when she was younger. The painting has almost a celestial quality to it as the colors and layers undulate around the edges of the support. The underlying drawing peers through the paint as well as through us as we reflect upon its subject. Cooper’s work vibrates with thought and content; something new pounces out with each viewing.

Nikki Woods, whose paintings resonate with the current political climate within the confines of personal space, affirms our thoughts on the exhibition: “All of the work in the show represents a unique perspective, the subject and content of the work varies by artist, but I think when viewed in the same context, there are these unifying patters and dialogues that emerge.

The show’s title, I think is a kind of metaphor for the act of producing artwork and viewing artwork. What parts of you do you bring to the work when you make it, what gets reflected back to the viewer?”

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EAT THIRD ACTS A new era at Felice, the same familiar comforts and sharp execution

By Douglas Trattner Photo by Emanuel Wallace

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE BRILLIANT late-summer evenings, the type that is too scarce to squander indoors.

The temperature was taking its good, sweet time on the way down, the air was crisp and clean, and the sky was the color of a Bob Ross painting — Prussian blue, I believe it’s called. We grabbed a light sweater and drove straight to Felice, a place that is always on our radar but often sidestepped in favor of newer spots. Walking up to the building, that immaculate Craftsman-style bungalow, we began noticing some changes to the property. What had always been a charming if rustic patio had blossomed into an impeccably tailored landscape, one that now includes a bocce court, fire pit and fruit trees with limbs bending towards earth under the weight of their bounty. And then there was that carriage house, the stylish alfresco bar that functions as the heart of it all.

I guess you could say that Felice has advanced into its third act, an era defined by a state of refinement and maturity in terms of food, service and setting. The “urban cafe” opened its doors in 2008 under the direction of Margaret Mueller, a then-79-year-old benefactor who “did it for the fun of it.” She had solid help in the form of chef-partner Ricardo Sandoval, who split his time between Felice, Fat Cats and Lava Lounge. Sandoval parted ways with Mueller after six years, ushering in a second act best described as uneventful stasis. All that ended a couple years ago when Jack Mueller, Margaret’s grandson, and Paul Neundorfer stepped in to save the day, alongside longtime chef Jose Coronado.

Another addition to the rambling patio is a wood-fired pizza oven, clad in handsome fieldstone and emanating warmth and fuel. The warmth comes by way of radiant heat, the fuel in the form of thincrusted pizzas that crackle, shatter and bend in all the right places.

Ours was topped with zesty soppressata ($13), mozzarella and greens.

You would be hard pressed to find a collection of food as broad, eclectic

and tantalizing as what’s proffered here. There are 30-some options on the main menu, a mix of classic and new, vegan and meaty, small, medium and large. A specials menu adds another 10 or so and, when weather permits, there is another devoted to those fire-baked pies.

It’s the sort of catalog that renders diners immobile with indecision: Should I go with the grilled octopus or the garlic shrimp, the duck confit or the braised pork belly?

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impression, but that’s precisely what the Guatemalan roast chicken ($20) succeeded in doing. From the crispy skin to the juicy bone-in dark meat, the bird was flawless. Rounding out the Latin-themed platter were housemade tortillas, fluffy rice, black beans and pickled peppers.

A Spanish-style seafood stew ($23) featured an aromatic saffron-scented broth containing shrimp, clams, mussels and flaky fish. The deep bowl was capped with an aioli slicked crostini. Not to be outdone by others,

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cauliflower ($8) appetizer, which happens to be vegan, manages to summon the flavors, if not the textures, of those timeless barroom flappers. The cauliflower is crisptender, and it’s tossed in a robust sauce. Slightly larger than Totino’s Pizza Rolls, three wee chorizo-filled empanadas ($9) pack heaps of flavor in a tiny package.

Rare is the restaurant chicken dish that manages to make a lasting

Felice prepares a lusty fried chicken sandwich ($13) with cabbage slaw, pickles and pepper sauce on a downy soft bun.

An appealing brunch menu lures bed-headed foodies out of the house come Saturday and Sunday, when the pace is slower but the service is still polished. Mugs of Rising Star coffee ($3) are kept full and hot. Composed breakfast plates like chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits and huevos

rancheros are filling, flavorful and texturally satisfying. Those rancheros ($14) arrive on a plate loaded with fried eggs, fresh tortillas, black beans, salsa, guacamole and crispy plantain wedges. Crisp-skinned salmon is the star of a meatless eggs Benedict ($15). The chubby stack is doused in Hollandaise and sided by seasoned fried potatoes. Oddly, the base of it all is a squishy hamburger bun top rather than a sturdy muffin, one of the few missteps over the course of two recent visits.

Felice doesn’t lose its appeal during the cooler parts of the year; it just changes its tack — and its menu, as seasonal dishes are swapped in and out, including some of the ones mentioned above. The vintage but updated house offers numerous habitats throughout, from the main floor with its four-season patio to the second-floor barroom and on up to the hip attic lounge. The dead of winter is bearable when you’re gripping a local craft beer, a glass of Spanish red or a heady cocktail fortified with rye in the warm embrace of the upper floors.

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EAT BITES First look: Spotted Owl bar in Akronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Hill neighborhood

By Douglas Trattner Photo by Doug Trattner

THE SPOTTED OWL JUST celebrated its ďŹ fth anniversary in Tremont, and by the end of the month the cocktail bar will open a second location, this one in the West Hill neighborhood of Akron.

Owner Will Hollingsworth has spent the past year converting the old Firehouse No. 3 at 60 South Maple St. into an attractive, warmly lit watering hole. The turn-of-thecentury building, once home to the ďŹ re station that now resides across the street, features 16-foot ceilings clad in gorgeous honey-toned wood.

Cut-outs for a pair of ďŹ remanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poles, now patched up, can still be seen above. The spacious 3,000-squarefoot room will seat 75 guests at the bar, high-tops and a couple of sumptuous velvet booths. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The building has great bones,â&#x20AC;? says Hollingsworth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to keep things simple. The space knows what it wants to be, you just have to listen.â&#x20AC;?

Sporting an Old Hollywood meets Old Havana vibe, the room is done up in greens and golds, greys and blues. A handsome bar is wrapped in white tile and gilded with brass lamps, hooks and foot rails. Behind the bar is a stunning work of art commissioned from Ohio artist Dana Oldfather. On the opposite side of the room, an eclectic gallery wall rises up to meet the high ceilings. In another corner of the room is a small nook for live entertainment such as a jazz trio.

Unlike the Tremont Spotted Owl, this one features an open kitchen,

from which a selection of small plates will ďŹ&#x201A;ow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In West Hill, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not surrounded by restaurants the way the Tremont location is,â&#x20AC;?

Hollingsworth points out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be doing dinner â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the cocktails are still the star of the show. But I want people to stick around.â&#x20AC;?

The cocktail menu will mirror that of the Tremont bar, where the current drinks format is built around a mood wheel that allows

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When the bar opens, likely in the last week of October, it will be overseen by general manager (and builder of bars) Sin-Jin Satayathum and beverage director Jacob Bender.

Owner Hollingsworth says that the southern expansion is somewhat of a proof of concept, a way for him to further test the viability of his brand. As he describes it, the Spotted Owl is ďŹ rst a bar and secondly a cocktail bar, operated with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;meatand-potatoesâ&#x20AC;? style of service where

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Instead, it was Jack Casino that would ultimately destroy one of Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most cherished watering holes. As of last Thursday, the Ontario Street Cafe is closed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done,â&#x20AC;? says partner Randy Kelly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jack Casino is our landlord â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been great â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but long story short, we agreed to terminate our lease.â&#x20AC;?

Located across the street from the Jack Casino, Ontario Street Cafe is a nearly 50-year-old lounge with an interior and ambiance from another era. Dimly lit, with mahogany bar, professional staffers and rock-bottom prices, the bar was an endangered species in an otherwise homogeneous landscape.

The one-of-a-kind bar is likely a casualty of Bedrockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to turn over every tenant on the street while building a second pedestrian bridge so gamblers can walk from a garage directly into the casino in relative comfort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thank our loyal customers that we have been able to serve over the years,â&#x20AC;? Alan Glazen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As our lease has come to an end, the decision has been made to evaluate the options for the future of the May Company Garage, including the retail space in which it includes, as it undergoes signiďŹ cant improvements and therefore we will be looking for a new location. We look forward to serving you in the future as the next iteration of The Ontario and thank you for your continued support.â&#x20AC;?

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Photographers Anastasia Pantsios and Joe Kleon dug into their archives for the new exhibit, Reigning Rock

By Jeff Niesel ocally based rock concert photographers Anastasia Pantsios and Joe Kleon, both of whom have contributed to Scene during their respective careers, have teamed up to present what they’re saying is the largest exhibition of Northeast Ohio concert photography ever assembled in the region.

Dubbed Reigning Rock, their exhibit opens at 78th Street Studios’ Survival Kit Gallery on Friday with a special reception that takes place from 5 to 9 p.m.

Pantsios and Kleon have “dug deep” into their archives for this year’s exhibit, printing photos never before seen. The exhibit will include photos of national acts as well as a new section devoted to local and regional

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In conjunction with the exhibit, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20, Michael Stanley will record part two of his oral history at the gallery, covering the years after MSB to the present. Part one was recorded six years ago during Kleon’s solo exhibit at the Space: ROCK Gallery in the Waterloo Arts District.

David Spero will again host this video interview, which will be open to the public free of charge.

From noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, The Classic Metal Show will broadcast its six-hour weekly show live from the gallery and re-name itself The Cleveland Metal Show.

Local metal musicians will join CMS hosts Chris Akin and Neeley throughout the day.

A raffle will also be held for a photo prize package.

More than 200 photos will be on display at Reigning Rock with additional prints available for sale. The exhibit will close on Friday, Nov. 15.

In separate interviews, Pantsios and Kleon talk about the exhibit.

What made you first want to start shooting concerts?

Pantsios: I was a theater student at Case Western Reserve, shooting stage productions for The Observer. We got tickets to the big rock shows, which were mostly at Public Hall then (early ’70s) and I got them because, back then, CWRU students didn’t like to leave campus and I loved music! I would take

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MUSIC my camera with me and saw rock concerts as a sort of theater.

Kleon: I bought a camera I couldn’t afford to take on my honeymoon. When we returned home, I was looking for ways to turn the camera into cash.

Chris Emig of Olathia (Pantsios)

What other photographers have influenced you?

Pantsios: Most photographers I like do (or did) work that is completely different than mine, such as Richard Misrach, Geoffrey Crewdson, Joel Meyerowitz, Geoffrey Winningham, Algimantas Kezys and Lee Miller. They make me see things in a different way. I like a lot of “street” photographers too, such as Brassai (one of my all-time favorites), Berenice Abbott, Robert Frank and Vivian Maier, which is a lot closer to the work I do. My favorite music photographer is jazz photographer Herman Leonard, who was a master at capturing the essence of musicians and the atmosphere of the venues where they played. I couldn’t get the shots he did though, because they depended so much on cigarette smoke and all clubs are non-smoking now!

Kleon: I have been a huge Fin Costello fan since I was a kid. The images he captured of bands such as Rush and Kiss were magical to me, growing up immersed in these bands.

What was the first Cleveland concert you shot and what was the experience like?

Pantsios: I honestly don’t remember! The first concert I ever shot was in Chicago where I’m from.

I shot several major shows at Public Hall/Music Hall that first summer I came here, such as the Doors and Led Zeppelin. It was looser, more freewheeling and dark — very hard to shoot, and film was expensive. But no one cared if you brought a camera and walked up front to take photos.

There were also lots of bikers hopped up on sopers (anyone remember those?) and Boone’s Farm. Very

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freewheeling!

Kleon: The first show I shot was Wish You Were Here at the Odeon in 2002. I was working as a crew member for the band and brought my new camera to the show. I had maybe taken 100 or 200 photos in my life before that day, mostly with disposable film cameras.

You held your first exhibit of Northeast Ohio concert photography two years ago. Talk about what it was like to put that exhibit together.

Pantsios: I had done other shows, but they were selective, focused on a particular era or genre. I put together a multi-photographer show called Visual Music back in 2011, where I curated work by a dozen area music photographers. We did that at a gallery in Akron and one on Waterloo. But this was the first time I went through everything I had shot since I started, and it was pretty overwhelming, especially since I printed or reprinted most of the work myself (it’s mostly black and white negatives and little of it is scanned).

Since I’ve been shooting digital since 2004, it was the first time I’ve spent that much time in the darkroom for a long time!

Kleon: It was a lot of work, but very rewarding in many ways. From

Eddie Money in 1980 (Pantsios)

a personal standpoint, I loved it because it was the first time I saw a lot of my photographs in print. Most of the time, all my work is created and published digitally. Seeing them in print brings a whole new dynamic and vibrance to the image that is often lost on a computer monitor.

From an artist/photographer point of view, seeing so many people reliving shows they attended, hearing stories of how my work takes then back to that day, and seeing the smiles on people’s faces when they see pics of artists they like is a great feeling.

This is your third exhibit. How will it differ from the previous two?

Pantsios: I’m focusing on two things I didn’t get into so much before: my local band photos and the pre-digital color work I did, mostly on slides. Almost none of the latter has ever been printed and none has ever been displayed, because honestly,

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before 15 years ago with digital, it would have been prohibitively expensive to get decent quality prints from slides. Now it’s not. And because we are doing the Michael Stanley oral history and the Classic Metal Saturday where we have many local metal musicians coming in to be interviewed and to play live on the air, both Joe and I are including far more local stuff. I started shooting promo shots for local bands back in the ’70s, working for both

Michael Stanley (Kleon)

the big talent agencies as well as independent bands. There are bands like First Light and Love Affair that I did most of the photos they ever used. I also shot all of Bill Peters’ bands on his heavy metal Auburn label in the ’80s, while Joe shot a lot of them when Bill revived the label in the ’00s. I think I took one of the first shots ever of Mushroomhead, back when they thought the band was going to be a side project from their “real” bands (the original reason they wore the masks).

Kleon: We have both dug extremely deep into our vast collections and unearthed many photos that have never before been printed, published, or seen. I will be displaying multiple photos of many bands, something I only did in a limited capacity at the last two galleries. I will have multiple photos from bands like Rush, Rolling Stones, Scorpions, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Yes, Aerosmith and others. We will also be exhibiting a ton of local artist photos.”

You’ll both have photos of Michael Stanley on display. Talk about what it’s like to work with him and why you think his music has such strong appeal.

Pantsios: We’ll have loads of Michael Stanley shots! Joe’s been Michael’s official photographer for the last 15 years, and I have shots going back to the beginning of the Michael Stanley Band — many appear on Stagepass, the live album MSB recorded at a way oversold Agora in late 1976. That was hard to shoot! I think Michael is Cleveland Everyman; he has songs that people in a — I know it’s a cliche but — blue-collar town relate

to, without making idiotic party music that tends not to age well. He has always done an amazing show, and he just seems like a guy you’d know. He actually IS a guy a lot of Clevelanders know!

Kleon: Working with Michael and the Resonators has been one of the highlights of my career. When I first met Michael, I was working on the air at WNCX. I would do his show when he was sick, or on vacation. I had just bought my first camera and Michael allowed me to shoot his shows. He still uses a band promo pic I took in the very early days of my shooting; it is used for almost every full band show to this day. His fans started buying pics.

Working with Michael was a huge motivator to continue shooting, try to get better with each show, and turn this new hobby into a paying career. I would never have shot the 1,500 shows I have, without Michael’s encouragement and access to his shows at the very beginning of my photographic endeavors. His music has such a strong appeal because it is genuine, written from the heart, and is done for the right reasons. Michael is a master songwriter and excels at emotional, thought-provoking lyrics that lay perfectly over the magical melodies that fuel the message.”

On Saturday, Oct. 26, the Classic Metal Show will broadcast its six-hour weekly show live from the gallery and re-name itself the Cleveland Metal Show. You’ve both covered Cleveland’s metal scene during your careers. Talk about why Cleveland has had such a great metal scene for the past few decades.

Bruce Springsteen in 1980 (Pantsios)

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had to do with Bill Peters and his Auburn label, as well as his Metal on Metal show on WJCU 88.7 FM, which has been on the station Friday nights since the early ’80s. Bill is very modest but I don’t think any of that would have happened without him.

Kleon: I have always loved being part of the Cleveland metal scene. The camaraderie and friendship between bands has always been something that has been inspirational. I loved seeing Cleveland metal bands always striving to excel musically.

Musical prowess seemed a lot more important to metal bands. Playing to the edge of their ability and beyond, always striving to grow and improve, and always putting 150 percent on stage secured Cleveland a spot on the map as one of the country’s greatest metal scenes.

Anastasia and I have captured a lot of that local magic and will have it on display at the gallery.

We live during a time when just about everyone thinks they can take photos. What distinguishes a good concert photo?

Pantsios: Emotion, mood. A lot of people are proud when they take a decently exposed, in-focus photo, but modern cameras have made that easy. For me, having originally studied to be a lighting and scene designer, a lot of it is about light and space, and the relationship of the body to them, which can express emotion in a subtle way.

Kleon: The same thing that distinguishes any good photo.

Accurately capturing the mood of the subjects and the vibe of the scene, in a well composed, focused,

dynamic, emotional, and visually interesting manner.

Shooting concerts has become much more difficult over the years as artists now often make photographers shoot only two or three songs from the soundboard.

What keeps you motivated to continue shooting?

Pantsios: Well, I’m not! I’d be happy to never set foot in TrafficJam-on-the-Falls (Blossom) or the Q, excuse me, the Fieldhouse, again.

I’m always amazed at the shots Joe gets because shooting from the soundboard traps you in a static viewpoint and doesn’t let you play around with light, space and angles, as I like to do. You have to rent a long lens, and lug a tripod and often a stool or small ladder, and wait for the performer to do something interesting in front of your camera.

Ugh. I just don’t do it. But last weekend I shot a dozen bands at the Ingenuity Festival, where I could walk around, look for angles, wait for moments, and get really

Rolling Stones in 2015 (Kleon)

good stuff. I’ll gladly shoot a band at the Beachland or Grog Shop or Bop Stop. Plus the music is usually fresher and more interesting. I’m well past the point of subjecting myself to the rules and whims of some superstar band that I probably got better photos of in their heyday.

Kleon: There are a few things that keep me motivated. I love to capturing the vibe of the venue and the emotions of a performance.

Knowing that others enjoy my work doesn’t hurt! It is increasingly difficult to work effectively and enjoy the work, when more and more artists are demanding things like free copyright to exploit all professional photos taken at their shows, without compensation.

What a deal! The restrictions are progressively getting worse, with some only allowing one song, or photos during 30 or 60 seconds of one or two songs. I refuse to shoot under such ridiculous conditions and would rather stay home.

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MUSIC DYNAMIC DUO Matt and Kim bring their Grand anniversary tour to the Agora

By Jeff Niesel Photo by Caleb Kulh

MATT AND KIM — KEYBOARDIST Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino — self-recorded their 2009 album Grand in Matt’s childhood bedroom in rural Vermont. At the time, they didn’t anticipate it would become their big breakthrough.

“I never would have thought that,” says Johnson during a recent phone interview. The band brings its tour in celebration of the album’s 10th anniversary to the Agora Theatre on Thursday. “All we knew when going into that was that we had made our first self-titled album and did it in about a week. I think we intentionally made kind of a mediocre record to avoid the sophomore slump. All we knew going into the second one was that we wanted a lot of time. I had never recorded anything before. I was just learning how to do it as I went on.

It’s pretty wild.”

Recording in Johnson’s childhood bedroom had its drawbacks. For one thing, it was January and the room was particularly cold during the sessions.

“My entire life, there was no heat in the top floor of my parents’ house,” says Johnson. “I would be piled under blankets every night.

We did it in January, and there are pictures of us wearing winter hats and scarfs while working.”

One of the main instruments Johnson used was an old Yamaha CS-5 that he found in his neighbor’s garage in Vermont.

“We really couldn’t figure out how to play it,” he says. “It wasn’t like a piano. It just went ‘woooo wooo weeee weee’ and made all sorts of weird noise. I ‘borrowed’ it from him. I still have it to this day.

I figured out how to play it. It kind of got me into keyboards. There’s other random things. On [the song] ‘Daylight,’ there’s a synth-y sound, but it’s actually a melodica, which is a piano you blow into.”

For the current tour, the group will play the entire release from start to finish.

“We’re [rehearsing] now,” says Johnson. “It’s nice. Some stuff is so simple. We spent so many years amping up the energy of our live

shows. So we want to stay true to the sound of these songs, but we want to give it the fuller show energy. At the core of it, it’s my fun voice singing these little songs we wrote 10 years ago.”

The tour will mark the debut of the lurching mid-tempo tune, “I’ll Take Us Home.”

“We’re working it out now, and it’s such a cool song,” says Johnson.

snappy song’s call-and-response vocals and swells of percussion stand up well over time.

“The thing I remember about it is that I have a long history if a song is good and natural, it happens really quickly,” says Johnson. “It’ll be done in a day or two days. That was absolutely not the case with ‘Daylight.’ We worked on it for seven months. We kept coming back to it.

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“If it had been my band’s best song, I would’ve been happy. There are a couple of songs that received a short amount of play. With ‘Spare Change,’ which is claps and stomps and a piano sound, we tried to bring it to the stage and it didn’t really work.

We are trying to figure out how to get the audience involved and want it to be a ‘We Will Rock You’ type of song.”

The album’s centerpiece, “Daylight,” just hit a hundred million streams on Spotify. The

I knew there was something there.

It just took a lot of tweaking and messing with until the 11th hour.

It’s funny because a lot of times if it’s the case, that song will be garbage.

If you spend that much time on something and don’t trust your instincts, you mess it up.”

Grand is about 30 minutes long, but the band will play more material in the set’s second half. At the time of this interview, Johnson wasn’t sure which songs from the catalog would make the cut.

“We’re playing Grand in order, so it’ll start with ‘Daylight,’” he says.

“Let’s hope no one is late. We’ll do 45 minutes after that. Getting six albums in, we have to cut things we love playing. We want there to be as much impact in the last part of the show where we can draw from our whole catalog.”

Fifteen years on, Matt and Kim continue to regularly tour and record. Johnson admits one key is that he and Schifino, who are married, have a great relationship both on and off the stage.

“I think for us and our personalities, it worked that we’re in a band together,” he says. “For a lot of bands, it’s tough to dedicate 100 percent of their lives to their bands when they have a whole other life with a significant other and children. We put all our time into this band because we do it together.

It’s not leaving someone out. There are plenty of couples who would’ve killed each other long ago if they had spent this much time together. I don’t suggest it for everyone, but it’s worked out pretty well for us.”

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Face Rings Bellz/ELO/ Mann/Watts/ P_FRMDATRIBE: 9:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop.

King Ropes/Micah Foster Band/Xe La Sol: 8 p.m., $7. CODA. Quiet Riot/Vultan/Shock Frenzy: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre.

School of Rock Grad School: 7 p.m., $5. Grog Shop.

Scotty Sire, Toddy Smith, Bruce Wiegner, Chris Bloom: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

Sessa/A Deer A Horse/Actual Form: 9 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Sweet Tits Halloween Cover Night: 8 p.m., free. Now That’s Class.

Curtis Taylor CD Release: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop.

Bill Toms & Hard Rain/Gene Schwartz Trio: 8 p.m., $15.

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Yheti Trifinity Tour: 9 p.m., $20. The Winchester.

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Cleveland Guitar Trio: 7 p.m., $15.

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Taking Back Sunday/Red City Radio: Mind Over Matter guitarist Eddie Reyes founded Taking Back Sunday 20 years ago, and it went through numerous lineup changes before becoming the aggressive post-punk band that it is today. It performs tonight and tomorrow night at House of Blues in support of its 20th anniversary. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. House of Blues.

Richard Thompson/Eliza Gilkyson: 8 p.m., $30-$40. The Kent Stage.

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Immortal Technique/Chino XL/ Poison Pen: 8:30 p.m., $25 ADV, $28 DOS. Grog Shop.

Marti Jones and Don Dixon: 8 p.m., $20. The Kent Stage.

Ray LaMontagne: 7:30 p.m., $49.50$85. Akron Civic Theatre.

Missio/The Score: 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $19 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

That 1 Guy: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern.

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BAND OF THE WEEK WINDOW DOGS ROCKTOBER

By Jeff Niesel

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formed in 2015 as two other local bands merged and started playing songs that Breeden had written. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have this dark-folk sound, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to categorize our music,â&#x20AC;? says Khouri. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like Umphreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s McGee and Sean [Breeden] likes Manchester Orchestra and Brand New and our guitarist Dan [Cooley] is into different things and likes weirder stuff like Ween and Primus.

Brian [Thompson] likes shreddier music like me, and Joey likes punk and then a lot of folk stuff like Mt. Joy. We continue to improve our chemistry, and we touch on different sounds, so we try to bring the energy and have a good time when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up there playing live. It allows us to connect with everyone out there.â&#x20AC;?

A TEAM EFFORT: The ďŹ ve-piece compiled tracks for its new album, Nexus, after working with a couple different audio engineers and some friends who served as session musicians throughout the process. Half of the tracks were recorded/mixed at Blockhouse Studios in Bloomington, Indiana, with Andy Beargie, while the rest were done locally. Beargie, a Westlake native who went to Indiana University and does both commercial A/V stuff and indie rock music, works out of the former Echo Park Studios, which he recently purchased. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really cool studio, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pro,â&#x20AC;? says Khouri when asked about working with Beargie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can just haul out there and

work late into the night.â&#x20AC;? The group recorded three tunes locally with Jim Stewart at Superior Sound and two with Mike Jaworske and Brad Heyden at Defunk Studios in Stow. The album was mastered at Cleveland-based CauliďŹ&#x201A;ower Audio. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We pieced it together and a lot of these songs have been live staples, so we really wanted to get them out there,â&#x20AC;? says Khouri.

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stage 4â&#x20AC;? features hoarse vocals and a mix of piano and loud guitars, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downward Spiralsâ&#x20AC;? possesses a herky-jerk Pavement-like vibe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chasing My Tailâ&#x20AC;? features banjo, and the album includes a strippeddown version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking Glass,â&#x20AC;? the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst single from 2015, The Nexus version features piano, vocals and a full string arrangement performed by friend, former Bloomington resident, and Amsterdam-native Diederik van Wassenaer (the Wonderhills, Dietrich Jon). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recorded the song with Andy [Beargie], without enough time to add some ďŹ nishing touches, so Andy sent it to Diederik. We just laid down the pianos and vocals. Diederik put the strings over it, and it sounds great.â&#x20AC;?

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: windowdogs.bandcamp.

com and soundcloud.com/windowdogs WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Window

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SAVAGE LOVE STANDARDS

by Dan Savage I’m a Seattle local who basically grew up reading your column. I think you’ve always given really sound advice, so I’m reaching out. My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. We started out poly, but I was clear from the start that when I fall in love with someone, I lose all attraction to anyone other than that one person. I fell in love with him, and we decided to be monogamous.

But I know he’s still attracted to other people, and it makes me feel like ending the relationship. I love him like I’ve never loved anyone else, but because he doesn’t feel the same way I do on this subject, I don’t believe he loves me at all. I don’t feel like I can bring it up with him, because it will just make him feel bad for something he probably can’t control, and I don’t think I can make him love me. But I also feel like I’m wasting my time and living a lie. Help!

— Heartbroken Over Nothing This thing about you — how being in love with someone renders you incapable of finding anyone else attractive — that’s pretty much a unique-to-you trait. The overwhelming majority of even the blissfully-in-loves out there still find other people attractive. And you should know that if you grew up reading my column. You should also know that a monogamous commitment doesn’t mean you don’t want to fuck other people, HON, it means you’ve promised not to fuck other people. We wouldn’t have to make monogamous commitments if sincere feelings of love extinguished all desire for others.

Since no one is ever going to love you in precisely the same way you love them — since no one else is ever going to meet the impossible standard you’ve set — every person you fall in love with will disappoint you. Every potential love arrives predisqualified. You meet someone, you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, you are not attracted to others, they still are, you have no choice but to dump that person and start all over again. Lover, rinse, repeat.

Zooming out: People who create impossible standards for romantic partners — standards no one could ever hope to meet — usually don’t

want to be in committed relationships but can’t admit that to themselves.

We’re told good people want to be in committed relationships, and we all want to think of ourselves as good people. So someone who doesn’t want a long-term commitment either has to think of themselves as a bad person, which no one wants to do, or has to redefine for themselves what it means to be a good person, which can be hard work. But there’s a third option: set impossible standards for our romantic partners. And then, when all of our romantic partners fail to meet our impossible standards, we can tell ourselves we’re the only truly good person as we move through life breaking the hearts of anyone foolish enough to fall in love with us.

So while my hunch is that it’s not your partner who is incapable

are looking to buy a deceased elderly man’s former wank bank? I’m certain I’m only the most recent in a long line of folks to find themselves in this situation. Any advice for finding the porn a new home, or is it a bad idea to even try? Added difficulties: smallish town, Midwestern state, and I’m his only living family member.

— Rehoming Inherited Pornography You would be in the same predicament if you had lots of living family members. I have an enormous family — lots of aunts and uncles, countless cousins — and “Who wants the porn?” isn’t a question I’ve ever heard asked at an elderly relative’s wake. And that can’t be because none of my elderly relatives had porn stashes; the law of averages dictates

a monogamous commitment doesn’t mean you don’t want to fuck other people. of loving you, HON, but you who are incapable of loving him, you’re free to prove me wrong. One way we demonstrate our capacity to truly love someone is by believing them when they say they love us. That’s step one. Step two is accepting that someone’s love for us is legitimate even if they don’t experience or express love in precisely the same way we do.

*** My father passed away recently. I received a contract to sell his house, and soon I’ll have to clean the place out. My question is this: What to do with a dead relative’s porn? I don’t want to keep it, I don’t want to waste it by just putting it in the trash, I can’t donate it to the library. There’s nothing especially collectible in it, so eBay is out. Maybe someone would buy the lot of it on Craigslist, but I’m not entirely clear what the legalities are for selling secondhand porn out of the back of a car, let alone what the potential market might be. I mean, how many folks

that at least one and probably more dead Savages (RIP) had massive porn stashes, which means whoever cleaned out the apartment or house quietly disposed of the porn. And that’s what you should do. If you’re concerned about your dad’s porn “going to waste,” dispose of it in a conspicuous manner, e.g., drop it off at a recycling center in open boxes or clear bags. Maybe a worker or someone else making a drop-off will spot the porn and decide to rescue it from the pile. And, hey, my condolences on the death of your father.

*** I went on Grindr just before Xmas last year, this handsome dude messaged me, and we ended up hooking up at his place. It was apparent from the get-go that this was no regular hookup. We didn’t even have sex. We just kissed and talked and cuddled for six straight hours. Sounds perfect, right? Well, at about hour five, in the middle of this surprisingly deep

conversation, he said something that made my head spin. I asked him how old he was. “Twenty-one,” he replied.

Holy shit. He asked how old I was.

“Fifty.” Neither of us had our age on Grindr. He looked about 30 to me. He said he thought I was in my late 30s. It was basically love at first sight for us.

After nine months of trying to keep a lid on our feelings, he moved away and found a guy close to his own age, which I strongly encouraged. Before they became an official couple, we went on a goodbye walk, which was full of love and tears. We agreed to do the “no contact” thing for one month (he thought three was extreme). But here’s my issue: I’m in love with him. I’ve been incredibly sad since we last spoke about three weeks ago. It’s a week until the agreed upon day when we can say hi if we want to, and I don’t want to. I can’t. I have to let him go. I know he’s going to want to talk, but I’m afraid if I have any contact with him, it will set me back and I won’t want to stop. It’s taken all my willpower to not contact him so far. My question: How do I let him know I don’t want any further contact without hurting him?

— Impossible Love Sucks Call the boy, ILS, ask him to meet up, and tell him you made a mistake.

Yes, you’re a lot older, and the age difference may be so great that you two aren’t going to be together forever. But maybe you’re perfect for each other right now. A relationship doesn’t have to end in a funeral home with one person in a box to have been a success. If you have three or four great years together before the window in which your relationship makes sense closes, ILS, then you had some great years together.

People get it into their heads that they can’t enter into a relationship unless they can picture it lasting “forever,” when really nothing is forever. To quote the great James Baldwin: “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Joan Price about senior lovin’: savagelovecast.com.

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